Sentences with phrase «tuition plan beginning»

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)- New York college students can apply for the state's free tuition plan beginning June 7.

As a result, various parties to the tuition plan began weighing in this week.

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In 1951 the nation's scholarship program was opened up to qualifying students who wanted to attend private secondary schools; the government also began providing for children attending all elementary schools a minimal supplementary aid in a form similar to the tuition voucher plans presently under discussion in several American states.

The only thing clear from the day's appearances by top state officials at a joint Assembly and Senate fiscal hearing was that Cuomo's tuition plan is in store for some changes once budget negotiations begin in earnest in coming weeks.

Mr. Cuomo began the year by unveiling a pledge to cover the cost of tuition at state colleges for families making up to $ 125,000 a year, a plan that his administration estimated would cost $ 163 million a year by 2019 — a mere «rounding error» in the education budget, the governor said on Tuesday, but that experts have warned could ultimately cost far more.

The episode suggested a hostile beginning to a session that already has one major piece of legislation in the mix: Mr. Cuomo's plan, announced Tuesday, to cover tuition costs for students at state colleges.

Lawmakers begin their annual review of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's state budget proposal in Albany today with a look at the higher education plan and, most likely, a focus on the proposal to phase out tuition costs for state and city public colleges.

The governor says the money is needed to pay for a middle class tax cut, agreed to last year and which is scheduled to begin phasing in later this year, as well as a plan to provide free tuition at public colleges for New Yorkers earning less than $ 125,000 a year and to spend more on public schools.

More than 200 students had already begun the school year at religious schools, planning to use state vouchers for tuition, when the Wisconsin Supreme Court halted the program on Aug. 25 with a temporary injunction.

Since City Colleges began taking applications for a plan widely advertised as «free college» by a campaigning Mayor Rahm Emanuel, more than 1,000 students have applied for the offer of waived tuition, books and school fees.

In 2013, Victoria helped negotiate between community members and trustees to create the Working Group, and was later elected to serve as an alumni representative, co-producing the beginnings of a plan to keep Cooper free without tuition.

«Under the approved plan, The Cooper Union will begin increasing undergraduate scholarships in as little as two years as part of a 10 - year timeline to generate the savings, expense reductions, fundraising, and other revenue increases necessary to sustainably provide full - tuition scholarships for every single Cooper Union undergraduate student,» Cooper Union Media Relations Manager Kim Newman said in a press release emailed to WSN.

The General Assembly of Albany, NY supports the students who are occupying The Cooper Union Foundation Building in protest of the proposed plan to begin charging tuition to the students of The Cooper Union and we support the student struggle to retain a free education at The Cooper Union.

In a scheduled «Day of Action,» the protest was organized to object potential plans by President Jamshed Bharucha and the board of trustees to begin charging tuition for education programs in the coming fall semester.

Eleven Cooper Union students have barricaded themselves within the school's Foundation Building clock tower since noon on December 3 in protest of the administration's plan to begin charging tuition for graduate studies for the first time in 110 years.

The Cooper Union's board of trustees is scheduled to meet on December 5th to hear the administration's plans of «reinvention,» which include the process of creating new revenue - generating programs, in particular tuition for new graduate programs to begin in the fall of 2013.

«The Trustees, a majority of whom are alumni, understand that the decision to begin charging tuition in 2014 deeply fractured the community,» the announcement of today's plan states.

Their dramatic action was spurred by The Cooper Union's plan to begin charging tuition, up to $ 19,000 a year, in 2014.